Oh yeah, I remember that show too! Like you, I don’t remember much about it now, but I do remember thinking it was really funny. I remember one episode where Fred Savage winds up in the company infirmary (does any company actually have an infirmary?) With an ulcer due to overwork (yeah, I know ulcers are caused by bacteria, just go with it). Everyone there is trying to one-up each other with the illnesses they got from working so much. “Arrhythmia is nothing! I have bleeding colitis!!”
I also remember watching “Sledge Hammer!” in the 80s. I would have been 13-14 years old. To my adolescent mind, it was one of the funniest things in the history of human entertainment.
It was wonderful and ahead of its time by just a few years. I watched every first season episode, but the second season suffered from massive casting changes and it went downhill.
Every episode of Brisco County aired on Fridays at 8:00 PM. Wikipedia backs me up and says that all 27 (!) episodes in the first season were produced despite less-than-great ratings. Aside from canceling it, Fox did everything they could for the show at the time.
Two seasons. Which was still about three seasons not enough.
There used to be a BBC show around 2004 or so called “Crisis Command — Could You Run the Country?”.
The premise was that “normal” people (I think there was a digital version where the viewers could vote on decisions) had to decide how to deal with certain threats like a terrorist attack, an epidemic and a flood.
Then some experts evaluated your answers and told you what the “pros” would have done instead.
It lasted 1 season (3 episodes) and I still think it was cut short because it gave out too much information regarding the Government’s approach to dealing with crises.
There was, for about half a dozen episodes in the early 1990s, Danger Theatre hosted by Robert Vaughn. The bit I remember as really funny was The Searcher segments where Diedrich Bader portrayed a mysterious biker vigilante, Police Squad style.
I watched a few of the episodes and enjoyed them very much.
IMHO, this show was much better than the show Donal is currently working on, “Gotham”.
I’m very glad I got to see this show (Terriers) because it gave me a much greater appreciation for Donal than I ever could have gotten from Gotham.
AAMOF, I think I’ve pretty much had it with Gotham. I liked it when I first started watching it. But ever since it has stopped broadcasting new episodes, when I think about that show, I get the feeling it’s really aimed at children and I just don’t find it very enjoyable at all.
I sure do wish they would have given Terriers more episodes. It’s truly a better show than many other long running shows.
More love for The Night Stalker some of the episodes were campy but many of them scared the piss out of me as a kid. Recently rewatched it and decided those were the best episodes.
I loved Due South and I do realize it went on longer up in Canada.
There was another short lived one I really enjoyed but I can’t remember the name. It stared a rapper, pretty sure it was Ice-T, and a bunch of ex cons who were solving mysteries by operated a bit closer to the ilegal side of the law than cops could. Pretty sure it was on in the early 90s, I remember seeing it in the tiny living room of the house we were living in at the time
I wouldn’t call Soap a failed TV show. I thought it was hilarious too, especially the first few seasons, but it did have a four year run, 85 episodes. It started to feel tired by the end of the fourth season so it’s probably good it went when it did.
I do remember being ticked off that it was canceled before they could resolve the cliffhanger, but then I changed my mind. What better way for a show that was one continual story that always ended in cliffhangers, ending with a cliffhanger?
Strange Luck. Wish they’d put it out on DVD. 17 episodes.
Raines. Jeff Goldblum as a schizophrenic detective who “sees” the victims of the murders he is investigating. I liked it, but I really thought he was on the path to suicide, so I don’t think it could have run forever. 7 episodes.
RHD. A very short lived LA detective show. I like Tom Sizemore, despite his personal life issues. A bit more realistic than The Closer, which took place across the hall. 13 episodes.
Rescue 77. One of the many attempts to replicate Emergency!. As it was the 90s, it was more about the personal lives of the firemen than the rescues, but it did have potential. Only 8 episodes.
Bearcats! A period (WWI) adventure show, a cousin so to speak of QED and Brisco County. 13 episodes and a pilot movie. All available on DVD.
I watched just last night for the first time and saw Judy on The Andy Williams show (she looked a bit…sedated…but otherwise good) followed by Jack Benny (and Twiggy!) on Merv. Must have been the year he died. Nice time capsules into times past. I may have to check out more.
13 episodes.